You actually do have to give them your phone number if you make an account now. I also tried to find any email provider possible the other day that didn't require a cellphone and left with nothing. I'm pretty sure that you can't even register for youtube now without making a Google+ account, but I may be wrong about that.

You actually do have to give them your phone number if you make an account now. I also tried to find any email provider possible the other day that didn't require a cellphone and left with nothing. I'm pretty sure that you can't even register for youtube now without making a Google+ account, but I may be wrong about that.

I thought at the bottom in very fine print, there is a link letting you opt out, or "later". Youtube always asks me for more info and to change my name when I log in, and I just go back and forth on pages and click on other spots of the site until that annoying shit disappears.

I also just noticed since Googlemail/Gmail has been screwing around the past year with their platform, that I can no longer invite people (used to be up to 50) to join, and start a Gmail account, from their other email accounts.